bikester.co.uk

[galactico]

evening all.

does anyone have any experience of ordering from this company. i am after some components and they are quoting a much cheaper price than i can find elsewhere but they dont appear to have many reviews.

cheers

 

[corshamjim]

I ordered some panniers from them a couple of weeks ago. They arrived within a few days no problem, quality very good for the price.

 

[Manonabike]

evening all.

does anyone have any experience of ordering from this company. i am after some components and they are quoting a much cheaper price than i can find elsewhere but they dont appear to have many reviews.

cheers

I'm after a new D lock and I was interested to see if I could find it for less that £60..... but £110 is just shocking!!!!!

Also, I recently got some Gatorskin for £19 and this place has them at £53.99 each

I'm not bookmarking this site

 

[tyred]

I bought a Axa HR traction dynamo from them and it was much cheaper than SJS or anywhere else and arrived in a few days. No complaints.

 

[tincaman]

I'm after a new D lock and I was interested to see if I could find it for less that £60..... but £110 is just shocking!!!!!

Also, I recently got some Gatorskin for £19 and this place has them at £53.99 each

I'm not bookmarking this site

To be fair its the tub version of the Gatorskin, still can be got for £40 elsewhere.

 

[corshamjim]

I bought a Axa HR traction dynamo from them and it was much cheaper than SJS or anywhere else and arrived in a few days. No complaints.

Thanks for the tip - I'll need a new dynamo myself before next season. I didn't think to look on bikester. The Nordlicht is about £5 cheaper than SJSC and the B&M is about £17 cheaper!

 

[Bruce123]

Just spent a couple of hours trying to order some stuff on bikester - to save you time : You cannot use the £10 discount voucher on orders less than a certain amount - mine was for £53.99 and it did'nt allow it - did'nt tell me of course, just kept jumping back to the basket page. Theres no UK address on the site, sites got loads of bugs. The price for the item I wanted was the cheapest in google but I'm still going somwhere else, I don't think these guys are going to be around very long - prepair to be patient if you go shopping with them and read everything carefully.
Bruce.

 

[corshamjim]

Yes - I've placed three orders with Bikester since my earlier post. All have arrive eventually, but you're right, various aspects of their web site just don't work right and getting a response from their customer service department is painfully slow.

If you want for example to buy a 16" Roland Big Boy trailer, the price is so compelling it's probably worth the hassle, but not for run of the mill stuff available at similar prices elsewhere.

If you do order from them, it pays to set up a login so once you have placed your order you can track it more easily. Even then, the tracking page isn't entirely in English and even so doesn't provide the amount of information one might expect from some other online suppliers these days.